Calling Out The BS

The Dan Bongino Show

Dan Bongino tackles political hypocrisy and societal trends in this episode of 'The Dan Bongino Show,' using personal anecdotes about his ou

Key takeaways

• Political messaging often prioritizes performance over substance, especially among Democrats who rely on emotional appeals like singing rather than policy discussion.

Main topics

• Political hypocrisy and performative messaging
• Social Security funding crisis

Notable quotes

"You've got to see the signal through the noise. When you see the noise, you'll never unsee it."

Conclusion

Bongino concludes by urging listeners to prioritize personal preparedne

Transcript preview

Speaker 4 (0:02) All America, all the time. Sit Speaker 6 (0:05) down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Speaker 4 (0:10) So I was coming into the office this morning, and right outside the office, I saw one of these massive, what they call in Florida, palmetto bugs, which is hilarious because it's like a cool name for basically, right, Justin, what would be like a big roach. And they call them palmettoes. Palmetto bugs. I've been in Florida 10 years. It's not like yesterday. I've seen a lot of these. But these suckers never die. Anyone in Florida or even anywhere down south, they're certainly not the only ones. The roaches down here, and they're not those New York City, what are they, the German cockroaches or whatever. They're just, you know, Florida's like the bug capital of the world. It's a good reason for liberals not to come down here. Liberals are probably afraid of bugs because they're not outdoorsy. I've got something coming up on that for a second, too. I was a city kid. I'm having to learn outdoorsy. However, it's a good reason not to come to Florida. The Palmetto's, and they can fly, too. Those suckers will attack you sometimes. They don't typically, but they will. I was talking to one of the guys that's working here this morning, and I'm like, dude, you've got to hit these things with a freaking baseball bat for them to die. He's like, that thing's still alive. I'm like, unbelievably, it is. Speaking of outdoorsy, I've got a pretty cool weekend update for you. Let me just preface this by saying this. Speaker 4 (1:24) I get it for the first time. You get what? For those of you out there who fish, let me finish the statement before you slay me in my own chat, by the way. I didn't get it. I only fished once when I was a kid off a bridge going to Rockaway with my friend Andy's father for a little bit. I didn't really catch anything. And I was young. I don't know. I was like. 10 years old. And I really know what I was doing. We were city kids. We were city kids. I barely learned to swim until I was in my teens. You know, there was no water around for us to go swimming outside of the beach. And most of the time we couldn't get out there anyway. The fishing thing, I totally get it now. I had like a mini awakening this weekend. For those of you who fish, I totally get it now. Stay tuned. All right. I got a lot to talk about, including the... Absolute zeros out there still getting exposed by the day how this is all signal noise. You've got to see the signal through the noise. When you see the noise, you'll never unsee it, I promise. You are on the right side of signal with this show, I promise. And the evidence is everywhere as all of these people start to collapse. All right, it's National Preparedness Month, and this isn't just another made-up observance. It was launched in 2004 in the wake of 9-11, one of the worst attacks on American soil. 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I hate people on these shows and stuff who paint their mouth to be, they're everything to everyone. They're like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. They're always like repainting. I was a city kid. There are benefits to that. You kind of grow up a little edgy. You grow up kind of reading people really well. You know, I was great being a New York City cop, great being a Secret Service agent in New York. You know, you do get an edge to you. But the downside to it is I didn't, we didn't have a lot of money growing up. It's not a sob story, whatever, who really cares? But we didn't have a lot of money at all. So all the stuff that I think guys should know, you know, horseback riding. maybe do a little mountain climbing. I didn't get to do anything. It's not a knock on my parents at all. They were great. Did what we could. My father used to take me to Action Park. If you've ever seen the documentary, that was like the most action I had. But that's all we could do. Speaker 4 (6:02) I say that because now in my 50s, I regret not doing all that stuff. I don't know how to ski. I barely learned to swim until I was a teenager. I'm not that great at it now. I've got this friend of mine. He's a really cool guy. His dentist friend. Him and his family, guys like freaking Indiana Jones. There's nothing the dude can't do. Spear fishing. He skis double black diamonds, jumps out of freaking helicopters. The dude's like freaking Indiana Jones and MacGyver. He saved his wife once choking on a piece of lobster by like doing some like crazy procedure. The guy is like, so he takes me out on his boat this week and we took a little trip with the family. And first day we went spear, well, lobster. It's a little easier than spearfishing. And I'm such a terrible swimmer. I got to tell you, I was not very good at it. All I did, I wound up doing, I'm like, you know what? Give me this life. I'm just going to float here and watch. And I had fun watching. I'm floating in the water. Got my snorkel. I'm like, I'll watch you guys kill some lobster. It was kind of fun, but I wasn't very good at it. I'm just not a great swimmer. I can swim to like stay alive, not to go get Joey bag of lobster at the bottom. I'm just not good at it. But day two, he's like, I'd only fish once in my life. I know you're like, how could you not fish? You were a dude. I just didn't know. It takes a lot of time. We went out fishing and man. I'm not kidding you. I just told you guys I sucked at spearfishing, okay? So I'm not trying to be like the guy. I go out fishing the next day with him and his three boys, great kids. And the youngest one, Brendan, is like this awesome kid. He's a little young kid, and he's like a big fisherman guy. And talk about beginner's luck. I wind up catching like 12, 15 fish in like an hour. It's total beginner's luck. I'm not claiming it was any skill at all. Matter of fact, I bring up Brendan's name because he asked me, he goes, hey, man, where are you casting? I'm like, I don't know, just out there. Why? I'm like, I don't know, because I don't want to cross your line. That was it. Total beginner's luck. We wound up staying out there four or five hours. Paula was getting a little motion sickness at the end, so we had to come back. I could have stayed out there all day. I'm just saying, I get it now. I totally get it. The most relaxing thing, and the reason I bring it up to tie it to this story today, I thought about this, what we're going to talk about in today's show. is folks as a movement. This was one of the few times in my life in the last few years, which have been really chaotic, where I had like this mini awakening moment. I'm fishing out there. It's raining, by the way. The weather wasn't even great. We're in this, we're in the Atlantic off the Bahamas, right? We're catching some grunts, some yellowtail, some grouper, even a barracuda. I hadn't gotten a fight with a barracuda. He won, ripped the whole line off. But I got to tell you, man, I had seriously like a mini awakening. I had this moment where all the noise like went quiet. Does this sound like weird or do you get it? Really? I felt like now I get why people do this. Like the signal became clearer because the noise got really, really dim. And I came back today. Obviously, we had Labor Day off yesterday. I wanted to spend some time with your families. You have to do shows every day. It's more important you be with your family. And I thought to myself, Folks, you see all the noise out there, all the people out there who go after me and go after people in the Trump administration, yet produce nothing but noise. The second you ask them to produce a signal, what happens? They get sued. They get defamation suits. They produce no receipts at all. They produce endless. endless data points unrelated to actual evidence. They never produce anything. And I'm telling you this because I know you're in the right place. And I know when this all settles down in a couple of years, this acute moment in time, politics never settles completely. But when this moment settles down, I am absolutely certain of this. As certain as my name's Dan Bongino, I'll cut off my right arm if this doesn't happen. I am sure when this is over and the record is complete, And you see our body of work, what we put together, not just me at the FBI, but the administration, versus the defamation suits, the lies, and people get exposed as the truth gradually seeps out. You're going to say, I wish I hadn't wasted time with the noise and had focused more on the signal too. I promise. Folks, we got a lot of things going on. We got, you know, the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil in our history in 9-11. We got a sad anniversary of Charlie's murder. We've got multiple trials going on right now, which you would think due process would matter to people who call themselves lovers of liberty. It just doesn't to these people. It just doesn't. They hide behind their positions and their ex-accounts. Trust. Trust process. You can't say I respect the Constitution and due process and then throw process out when you want to attack people for political reasons. People are entitled to the presumptions of innocence and constitutional protections. Speaker 4 (11:02) It's really sad, folks. But I promise you, over time, you will never regret being part of this audience, ever. So this happened this weekend, too, related to the news. Because again, you hear a lot of noise about what people speculate on and nothing happened. And this came out. And the only reason I bring this up is I debated putting this into the show. But it's certainly a news item. And it was on the front cover of the New York Times. I found out, like you did, Mike. Cousin Susan sent me a text and said, hey, you're on the cover of The New York Times. I said, OK, that's interesting. It's a story about the covid investigation that picture looks so mean in that picture. And Fauci and I basically got hit by some university professor. on the article who says one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. So I want to put up what the article says about our investigation at the beginning of it in the New York Times. It says, in early 2025, Dan Bongino, the fiery, fiery, I was, we got to throw that in there. The fiery number two official at the FBI summoned dozens of agents to the Bureau's Washington headquarters. Mr. Bongino, a conservative media personality, recently elevated to deputy's role. demanded to know why a years-long inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic had stalled and why investigators had not more forcefully scrutinized the role of government scientists, current and former officials say. So, you know, you can read the article yourself. It's in the New York Times by Benjamin Mueller and Glenn Thrush. Check it out if you want. I'm not even putting it up for like an SPS moment. I'm putting it up because I went and saw it. And then I go on the X account because I couldn't get any service out there in the ocean. I get back and I see this response from a guy. I can't even get my name right. My name is Dan, not Don, but it's OK. Everybody does that. So, you know, Craig Calhoun on X. Craig, was that Craig J. Calhoun? He is, I guess, a professor at ASU, he says. He says Don Bongino is ignorant and destructive, but one has to admit he's determined. Speaker 4 (13:09) inside the DOJ's investigation of Fauci and other virus scientists. And he attaches the article. So I just responded to him. I mean, what's ignorant or destructive about demanding answers? Now, of course. The haters out there who want to be all noise and no signal will insist to you that nothing's happening about this case or any other case out there, despite the fact that all of these items continue to happen. I can't tell you this enough. This battle with the Folex MAGA, people on our side who are nothing but nihilists and want to see this country collapse under the weight of Democrat socialist rule, have no perspective on the real fights right now. They just want to see the country burn exactly like the Democratic socialists. or the undemocratic socialists. Speaker 4 (13:55) Folks, at that little moment fishing this weekend, I really, this kind of little mini awakening where you just drown the noise out, you see pure signal for the first time in a while, was another reminder of what's really important. We got a lot going on this week. You've got the RNC, you've got some travel. Some of the shows are going to look a little different. Some of the, we'll be here at 10 a.m. May have to record a little bit early in a couple of shows just to throw that out there. But drowning out the noise is really hard. It is. Separating from the signal from the noise this week is going to be critical. We've got an election coming up. Try to challenge your priors always. Things you believe, question it. It's the best thing you can do. We have real fights going on, folks. And the noise hustlers out there, they're going to throw this whole thing away before the election. Folks, we've got real fights coming up. They're not coming up, they're here. You've got the persistent threat of a terror attack. You've got the growing threat of a cyber attack on U.S. soil. You've got the Chinese Communist Party saber-rattling over Taiwan. You've got Russia and Ukraine ongoing. You live in a very dangerous world. I love the sunsets at night. I love the serenity of being with friends. But the hard reality is we live in a world full of challenges. And you get these people talking about these things they just make up on X